tiledjinn (u/tiledjinn)

tiledjinn commented on The U.S. grid is so weak, the AI race may be over fortune.com/2025/08/14/da... · Posted by u/plastic-enjoyer

elric · 4 months ago

Are there any plans for significant investments in the US grid(s)? IIRC the entire US doesn't even have a single interconnected grid, with Texas having their own for some reason.

European grids aren't that much better either, loads of investments needed in order to connect more renewables. Some areas already can't handle the load from solar panels/electric vehicles. Everyone seems to know that this is both costly and necessary, but not much seems to be happening. Maybe these things simply take time?

tiledjinn · 4 months ago

texas has its own so that it doesn't need to meet the regulations of the others

tiledjinn commented on Stop Killing Games stopkillinggames.com/... · Posted by u/MYEUHD

andrecarini · 6 months ago

Well, this is about software you bought in advance. The Facebook comparison doesn't really work because you're not paying in advance to use it.

> This software is not guaranteed beyond 0 Unix time.

Grandma goes to the store to buy a game for their grandkid. She sees two game boxes. One says in the front "This game will stop working tomorrow and you will not get a refund" and the other says "This game will stop working in 2030". Which one does she pick?

tiledjinn · 6 months ago

Either the one little Timmy wanted, or the one the clerk tells her is selling fast (whether or not it's selling fast).

tiledjinn commented on Stop Killing Games stopkillinggames.com/... · Posted by u/MYEUHD

freeone3000 · 6 months ago

How is a dedicated server nonsensical? There’s a fuckton of games, ancient and modern, with them.

Shoot, how is peer-to-peer nonsensical? Elden Ring (seamless multiplayer) got it tacked on as a mod. It’s insanely doable.

I don’t accept that these are nonstarters. In the slightest.

tiledjinn · 6 months ago

Ok; package up Cloudflare, Facebook, or E-Trade and let people host it.

tiledjinn commented on Stop Killing Games stopkillinggames.com/... · Posted by u/MYEUHD

andrecarini · 6 months ago

Lots of bad takes in this thread. The whole idea behind this is just to stop defrauding customers that buy your software and then are left holding the bag. Nobody is asking for developers to keep running server infra for eternity.

Any of the following options are enough to satisfy this proposal:

- Put an expiration date on the storefront and make it clear that your software is not guaranteed to continue working after date X.

- Have your server source code (stripped down of proprietary stuff) ready for public release at EoL.

- Allow customers to reverse engineer the binaries and communication protocol after EoL.

- Package dedicated server binaries with the game and allow customers to connect to it via a LAN or direct IP option.

tiledjinn · 6 months ago

> - Put an expiration date on the storefront and make it clear that your software is not guaranteed to continue working after date X.

This software is not guaranteed beyond 0 Unix time.

> - Have your server source code (stripped down of proprietary stuff) ready for public release at EoL.

This isn't viable, and i would expect anyone on this site to understand that. it's roughly equivalent to saying "just make facebook stripped of proprietary code and ready for the public to run"

> - Allow customers to reverse engineer the binaries and communication protocol after EoL.

This is a reasonable path forward, but likely a non-starter in the US for political reasons. I understand that "stop killing games" is an EU thing.

> - Package dedicated server binaries with the game and allow customers to connect to it via a LAN or direct IP option.

See point 2. This is nonsensical.

tiledjinn commented on Ask HN: Would You Use a Dev Tool That Does "Requirements → Tests → Code"? · Posted by u/andreiujica

tiledjinn · 6 months ago

i wouldn't use it if you paid me

tiledjinn commented on 20 years working on the same software product successfulsoftware.net/20... · Posted by u/hermitcrab

aqueueaqueue · 10 months ago

What is JD?

tiledjinn · 10 months ago

Juris Doctor. A lawyer.

tiledjinn commented on Google must open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge theverge.com/policy/2024/... · Posted by u/dblitt

hooli42 · a year ago

This is exactly the situation for desktop games right now, something Epic is profiting immensely from. It's an extremely annoying situation for users, having a dozen launcher/store apps around contributing to bloat.

tiledjinn · a year ago

More fair to say Epic is money pitting from, given discoveries from Epic v Apple and Epic v Google..

tiledjinn commented on Google must open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge theverge.com/policy/2024/... · Posted by u/dblitt

ToucanLoucan · a year ago

I was under the impression the App Store was indeed ruled a monopoly and that Apple was going to be made to open up third party app stores?

tiledjinn · a year ago

Epic v Apple the court decided not to answer the question of whether Apple is a monopoly.

tiledjinn commented on Google must open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge theverge.com/policy/2024/... · Posted by u/dblitt

kelnos · a year ago

> They don't prevent Apple from facing the same lawsuit or from being covered by the same judgement.

I thought Apple did face the same lawsuit, against the same plaintiff, and Apple won.

tiledjinn · a year ago

Better to say Apple failed to lose. The court explicitly left open the question as to whether they are a monopoly. They just didn't provide any meaningful injunctions as a result of that case.

tiledjinn commented on Google must open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge theverge.com/policy/2024/... · Posted by u/dblitt

saghm · a year ago

The issue is that the precedent they point to was categorically ruled _not_ an illegal monopoly in a similar court case. I don't disagree that there should be more competition in for platforms, but I also can recognize that the legally binding opinion on that disagrees with mine.

tiledjinn · a year ago

Which case is that? Because that's not how the Apple ruling went.